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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Author: John B. Mondragón
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826336552
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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The structure, politics, and financing of education in New Mexico today.

Author: Alexandra Robbins
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401386148
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of her ten-year reunion, Robbins goes back to her high school, where she follows heart-tuggingly likeable students including "AP" Frank, who grapples with horrifying parental pressure to succeed; Audrey, whose panicked perfectionism overshadows her life; Sam, who worries his years of overachieving will be wasted if he doesn't attend a name-brand college; Taylor, whose ambition threatens her popular girl status; and The Stealth Overachiever, a mystery junior who flies under the radar. Robbins tackles teen issues such as intense stress, the student and teacher cheating epidemic, sports rage, parental guilt, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that students are driven to suicide and depression because of a B. With a compelling mix of fast-paced narrative and fascinating investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers.

Author: Lansing Bartlett Bloom
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Liong-shin Hahn
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826335340
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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The New Mexico Mathematics Contest for high-school students has been held annually since 1966. Each November, thousands of middle- and high-school students from all over New Mexico converge to battle with elementary but tricky math problems. The 200 highest-scoring students meet for the second round the following February at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where they listen to a prominent mathematician give a keynote lecture, have lunch, and then get down to round two, an even more challenging set of mathematical mind-twisters. Liong-shin Hahn was charged with the task of creating a new set of problems each year for the New Mexico Mathematics Contest, 1990-1999. In this volume, Hahn has collected the 138 best problems to appear in these contests over the last decades. They range from the simple to the highly challenging--none are trivial. The solutions contain many clever analyses and often display uncommon ingenuity. His questions are always interesting and relevant to teenage contestants. Young people training for competitions will not only learn a great deal of useful mathematics from this book but, and this is much more important, they will take a step toward learning to love mathematics.

Author: Tom Wiley
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: United States. Office of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 880

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Author: Sigfredo Maestas
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ISBN: 9781632934147
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Everyone was in for a surprise in 1909 when New Mexico declared open the Spanish American Normal School at El Rito. The school had been founded to train teachers for the vast region of the "Río Arriba" in which there were few schools and the citizenry still did not speak English, sixty years after becoming a territory of the United States. The Territory of New Mexico, in quest of statehood, had decided that fluency of its people in English would earn it the right to become one of the Forty-eight, which it did three years later. State and school officials were dismayed that few students were sufficiently prepared to become teachers. First, most had to learn to cipher and to read and write. The region's geographic isolation, scant means of communication, and lack of roadways rendered it impossible for anyone to make the proper estimate of educational need, it turned out. But the school's students soon discovered how much they liked the Normal School, and how willing the school was to meet their educational need. Although the Normal School trained as many as one hundred teachers in the first decades, in time it became an elementary and high school with strong traditions and loyal students. As a boarding campus, the Normal School attracted students from throughout New Mexico, many at a very young age. Children of the Normal School recount how unity of spirit created a new culture of Americans that few knew about, and how their esprit was built on mutual esteem and shared belief.

Author: Gibbs Smith
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN: 9781423616078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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The New Mexico Journey Student Guide is a reproducible book that provides students with Activity Masters that correlate with the student edition and a Chapter Review Study Guide that challenges students to draw conclusions and allows them different ways of demonstrating comprehension. One Student Guide is free with every purchase of 25 or more student editions. Please call 1-800-748-5439 ext. 175 for more information. BR>